I recently tried Total Body Training. I gave it 4 weeks, but didn’t plan it out very seriously. I wasn’t too happy with the results, but I’m going to give it another try for 3 weeks because I only want to be going to the gym 3x/ a week during finals. Here’s the tentative schedule for the first week:
It’s not my usual style to publicly express my disapproval of the stuff people post, as I don’t know enough to justify it. However, even to someone like me, it’s ridiculous that you can use a program which is TBT by name only, and then complain that you don’t see results.
Unless I am seriously misinterpreting what you have written, your parameters are not close to what Waterbury has suggested. Your choice of exercises is not what Waterbury has suggested. So here are my suggestions : if someone (ie Waterbury) knows more than you about training, perhaps you should try their original program before bastardizing it.
And if you don’t think they know more about training than you, then don’t use their program and subsequently complain about the lack of results.
As an aside, I’ve only gotten serious about lifting in the last few months, even though I’ve been doing it for about a year now. I too have been using TBT for the last six weeks, and have put on 4lb of mostly lean weight.
Awhile ago, you posted some ridiculous tricep/chest ‘summer workout’, to which EnTransit wrote:
[quote]Wow…Im tired of typing. Here is your solution…
Go to the sidebar
Click a name under “Authors”
Find a tried and true workout
Go to the gym
Train hard as fuck
Eat a lot of clean food
Sleep
Grow
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When he said find a tried and true workout, he implied that you follow it after you find it. Don’t kid yourself, you don’t know enough to tweak CW’s programs, let alone anyone elses.
Ummm I dunno, I would stick with a fixed rep scheme in TBT,just my personal opinion,lower the number of isolation exercises that your using and not go above 5 reps on the deadlift as I think its pointless to deadlift if your going to be using that light of weight.
You also might want to move lowerbody movements like the deadlift,squat exc to the first movement of the day.
It’s not my usual style to publicly express my disapproval of the stuff people post, as I don’t know enough to justify it. However, even to someone like me, it’s ridiculous that you can use a program which is TBT by name only, and then complain that you don’t see results.
Unless I am seriously misinterpreting what you have written, your parameters are not close to what Waterbury has suggested. Your choice of exercises is not what Waterbury has suggested. So here are my suggestions : if someone (ie Waterbury) knows more than you about training, perhaps you should try their original program before bastardizing it.
And if you don’t think they know more about training than you, then don’t use their program and subsequently complain about the lack of results.
As an aside, I’ve only gotten serious about lifting in the last few months, even though I’ve been doing it for about a year now. I too have been using TBT for the last six weeks, and have put on 4lb of mostly lean weight.
Awhile ago, you posted some ridiculous tricep/chest ‘summer workout’, to which EnTransit wrote:
Wow…Im tired of typing. Here is your solution…
Go to the sidebar
Click a name under “Authors”
Find a tried and true workout
Go to the gym
Train hard as fuck
Eat a lot of clean food
Sleep
Grow
When he said find a tried and true workout, he implied that you follow it after you find it. Don’t kid yourself, you don’t know enough to tweak CW’s programs, let alone anyone elses.
-Cloth[/quote]
Good post Cloth. The OP also states that he didn’t plan his program seriously. I guess he’s on the half ass plan to a better body.